REALLY cold up here!

[CapMartin]

Just an update on the USS Little Rock's situation in Montreal.
The crew is enjoying their extended cruise but not the condo owners nearby...
Spring is coming though...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montre...port-1.4557367

[CapMartin]

Quite a scenery on Lake Erie:

http://www.toledoblade.com/Toledo-Magazine/2018/01/21/Toledo-Magazine-Icy-spectacle-enchants-visitors-to-Lake-Erie.html

[CapMartin]

Boating season "up" here...

http://www.sooeveningnews.com/news/20180126/great-lakes-icebreaking-is-team-effort

[Download_Complete]

Le latest casualty of our great weather is the USS Little Rock. The good news is that the crew will be in Montreal for a while. Welcome guys and have some fun!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.b6979a10a3d9

Might not be there too long. I hear the main channel between NY and Wellesely Island is now open where it was frozen solid 2 weeks ago. With a 6 mph current, that's saying something.

[green650]

Le latest casualty of our great weather is the USS Little Rock. The good news is that the crew will be in Montreal for a while. Welcome guys and have some fun!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.b6979a10a3d9

They really must be pumping those things out. I got to tour the USS Detroit when they commissioned it in Detroit. Doesn't seem that long ago.

[CapMartin]

Le latest casualty of our great weather is the USS Little Rock. The good news is that the crew will be in Montreal for a while. Welcome guys and have some fun!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2018/01/22/the-navy-built-a-fast-agile-warship-for-440m-its-been-stuck-in-ice-since-christmas-eve/?tid=ss_tw-amp&utm_term=.b6979a10a3d9

[CapMartin]

Crazy weather...just hope that the water levels don't get too crazy this spring...

[Download_Complete]

If you are on Facebook, there is a 1000 Islands group which had some really awe inspiring pics taken of PH when she was on the rocks.

One of them was taken from the 1000 Islands bridge, and you can plainly see PH perpendicular to the shipping channel...which was trippy to see.

[CapMartin]

Pacific Huron is in the Beauharnois lock at this moment.
If you are on twitter, you can follow @theshipwatcher

[Download_Complete]

I have been watching that. The Pacific Huron grounded while I was up in Syracuse for the holidays, and she grounded on a reef about a mile away from where we kept our boat in the 1000 Islands.

[CapMartin]

These crews have been working for days:

https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/35393/20180108/freighter-freed-from-ice-ships-on-their-way-out-of-seaway